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Resources for Pastors

Resources for Pastors

Giving you back more time for other critical ministry responsibilities and family time!

Giving you back more time for other critical ministry responsibilities and family time!

Welcome to Resources for Pastors!

We provide preaching resources that help you manage your time more effectively.

Every subscription or archive store sermon includes a package of preaching materials:

Outline

A great place to start your own study of the passage!

Transcript

A full transcript ready for your edits. Use our research and first draft to craft a great expository sermon, week after week!

Slides

Key slides you can use with your church’s presentation software

Real solutions

What We Do

Welcome to Resources for Pastors! While our future plans involve serving pastors and churches in several areas including finances/stewardship, governance, and leadership development, our initial focus is on the provision of resources for the pastor’s preaching and teaching ministry.

Perhaps you have a strong call to pastoral ministry, but struggle with the process of preparing an effective, Bible-based sermon each week that moves your congregation towards maturity in Christ. Or maybe, like so many pastors (especially those in small and medium-sized churches), the demands of ministry make it challenging to find the time needed to develop effective expository sermons every week…while developing leaders, doing visitation, leading elders’ meetings, and an endless list of other tasks.

That’s where we come in! We provide preaching resources that help you manage your time more effectively. For every sermon on our site – whether stand-alone or part of a preaching series – we provide an outline, a full transcript ready for your edits, and a few key slides you can use with your church’s presentation software. Think of us as your Personal Research Assistant – breaking the passage down into a “preachable outline”, doing the reference work for you, and drafting a full transcript for you to work with in your sermon development process.

What makes us different?

Some pastors turn to available sermon outlines to jump-start their process. The challenge is that basic sermon outlines might help get you to the 10-20% level of completion, leaving a substantial amount of research and writing to complete your sermon. Our goal is to get you closer to 80%+ completion, and to significantly reduce the total amount of time needed each week to prepare and preach an effective expository sermon. We do this by completing the research and outlining process, and then drafting a full written transcript for a 30-40 minute sermon.

Your personal research assistant

What Goes Into Our Sermon Preparation Process

The Outlining Stage

  • Multiple prayerful readings of the passage

  • Consideration of the context (verses before and after the text)
  • Review of key parallel passages and cross-references
  • Initial draft of main points (often 3-5 main “preachable” points)
The Researching Stage
  • Determining overall context for the passage (author, audience, cultural background, time and place of writing, and other relevant context)
  • Identifying other Biblical events or passages that reinforce the text
  • Review of expositional, theological, homiletical, and devotional commentaries on the text – often consulting 20-30+ commentaries!
  • Review and revision of the main sermon points based on research findings
The Writing Stage
  • Prayerful review of the results of the Outlining and Researching Stages
  • Identification of possible illustrations
  • First draft of a complete transcript for a 30-40 minute sermon

  • Identification of specific, tangible “action steps” to conclude the sermon with ideas for applying God’s Word to church members’ lives

  • Multiple edits to refine for clarity and effectiveness
  • Preparation of (editable) slides for Presentation Software identifying key points from the sermon outline

Why Expository Sermons

One of the key features of Resources for Pastors is that we provide expository, verse-by-verse sermons. While there certainly is a place for topical preaching in the church today, we believe there is a long list of benefits to making expository preaching your main focus. Here are just a few of those benefits:

  • It allows the preacher to explain a passage in its context, which is central to an accurate understanding of God’s Word
  • It leads the pastor to cover “tough topics” when they are encountered in the verse-by-verse study, rather than avoid them (consciously or unconsciously)
  • It allows the pastor to preach the “whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27) and not just preferred or favorite topics
  • It exposes the congregation to all of Scripture, and encourages them to study Bible books along with the sermon series
  • It guards against misinterpretation of Scripture
  • “It liberates the preacher from the pressure of last-minute preparation on Saturday night.” (Alistair Begg)
  • “It produces mature well-taught Christians.” (Merril F. Unger)

Our Pricing Options

Archive Store

Membership Not Required
What’s Included

Preaching resources available for ad hoc purchases
Purchase a single sermon or a complete series
Find a topical or seasonal sermon based on your church’s needs
Accessible to all
RFP Members receive a discount on everything in the Archive Store

Most Popular

Monthly Membership

$39

per month

Continual access to multiple sermon series and bonus content for one low monthly ($39/month)

What’s Included

Better value – lower cost per sermon bundle or series bundle than through the Archive Store!
New sermons and related resources drop weekly!
Bonus content including monthly meditations/homilies for Communion/Lord’s Table/Eucharist
Less than $10/week to give you back hours of ministry and family time!
Fixed monthly amount = Easy church budgeting!
Members receive a special “Members-Only” discount on anything purchased through the Archive Store
Cancel anytime

Annual Membership

$390

per year

All the benefits of the monthly membership option with 2 free months! Pay for 10 months, get 12 months of fresh expository sermons

What’s Included

Best value – lower cost per sermon bundle or series bundle than through the Archive Store!
New sermons and related resources drop weekly!
Bonus content including monthly meditations/homilies for Communion/Lord’s Table/Eucharist
Less than $10/week to give you back hours of ministry and family time!
Fixed annual amount = Easy church budgeting!
Members receive a special “Members-Only” discount on anything purchased through the Archive Store
Cancel anytime

Download Free Sermon Sample

Get a sample single-sermon resource bundle for free. Includes sermon outline, sermon transcript, and presentation slides for one sermon